is of that exact and accurate character which all examiners who know their duty insist upon. So much for this class of books. The one before us, wherever we have tested it, is carefully written, precise, and complete. We can recommend it thoroughly to those law students who are preparing for the "Intermediate.”

The Rule of the Law of Fixtures. By Archibald Brown, M.A., &c. Second Edition. London: Stevens and Haynes. 1872.

WE are glad to find that Mr. Brown's book has so soon reached a second edition, as it first appeared in the pages of the Law Magazine. The singular clearness with which the law was stated at once arrested attention, and the then editor of the Magazine, to whom the author was a perfect stranger, suggested the publication of the articles in a separate form. The suggestion was adopted, and the public and the profession have shown their appreciation of the work by buying a small first edition within little more than a twelvemonth. In the second the original articles have been more elaborated, and a valuable addition has been made by the insertion of the principal American decisions on the subject. The edition deserves to go off as successfully as the first.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

Biographia Juridica. A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, from the Conquest to the Present Time. 1066 to 1870. London: John Murray. 1872.

Causality; or, the Philosophy of Law Investigated. By the Rev. George Jamieson, B.D. London: Longmans. 1872.

Full Report of the Proceedings of the First General Congress of Law Students' Societies. London: Butterworths.

1872.

Observations on the First and Second Reports of the Judicature Commissioners. By W. T. S. Daniel, Q.C.

Townshend's Law of Libel.

London: Stevens and Sons. 1872.

May's Constitutional History. London: Longmans. 1872.
Legal Periodicals.

Several important articles must necessarily stand over for the present for want of space.

LAW DEGREES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. THE Senate of this University has made a further augmentation of the staff of examiners with a view to render it as complete as possible in all its departments. Previously to the year 1867 the degree of LL.B. in the University of London was obtainable by a Bachelor of Arts of any British university on passing an examination in Stephen's "Blackstone" and Bentham's "Principles of Legislation." The degree of LL.D., on the other hand, could only be obtained by a candidate who succeeded in passing a very stringent examination

in common law, together with some other branch of positive law, and with either Roman law or some special application of the "Principles of Legislation." The examinations for these degrees were chiefly conducted by Mr. Nassau Senior, with the assistance of Mr. Tomlinson in common law. Thus no candidate could obtain a degree in law except on the condition of having previously graduated in arts, and it thus happened that the great mass of law students found themselves excluded from taking advantage of the facilities for graduation in their own subject afforded by the university; while the easy terms on which the LL.B. degree could be obtained by any graduate in arts, caused it to be sought quite as much by clergymen and dissenting ministers as by those who followed law as a profession. Candidates for the degree of LL.B. are now required to pass two examinations; the first of which embraces jurisprudence, Roman law, and the constitutional history of England; while of the second, the subjects are common law, certain departments of equity and real property law, the law and principles of evidence, and a special department of Roman law. The first of these examinations may be passed a year after matriculation; the second at an interval of two years after the first. Following each of the LL.B. examinations is an examination for honours; at the first, in jurisprudence and Roman law, to which is attached an exhibition of 401. a year for two years; at the second, in common law and equity, to which is attached a scholarship of 50l. a year for two years. At the examination for the degree of Doctor of Laws, every candidate is required to pass (1) in Roman law, (2) either in common law, real property law, or equity, and (3) either in international law or in jurisprudence and the principles of legislation. For the conduct of these examinations the following staff of examiners has been constituted: jurisprudence, Roman law, international law, and the principles of legislation, Mr. James Bryce, D.C.L., and Mr. T. Erskine Holland, B.C.L., M.A.; common law and law of evidence, Mr. Farrer Herschel, Q.C., B.A., and Mr. Henry Matthews, Q.C., M.P., B.A., LL.B.; equity and real property law, Mr. Edward Fry, Q.C., B.A., and Mr. Herbert H. Cozens-Hardy, BA., LL.B.; constitutional history of England, Professor Sheldon A.mos, M.A., and Professor Leonard Courtney, M.A.

THE INNS OF COURT EXAMINATION.

Ar a general examination of students of the Inns of Court, held at Lincoln's Inn Hall, on October 30 and 31, and November 1, 1872, the Council of Legal Education awarded to George Serrell, Esq., student of Lincoln's Inn, a studentship of fifty guineas per annum, to continue for a period of three years; Edward Denny Fairfield, Esq., student of the Inner Temple, an exhibition of twentyfive guineas per annum, to continue for a period of three years; Christopher Venn Childe, Esq., student of the Inner Temple; William Douglas Edwards, Esq., student of Lincoln's Inn; and James Mulligan, Esq., student of Gray's Inn, certificates of honour of the first class; Henry Bell, Esq., student of the Middle Temple; Arthur Bovell, Esq., student of the Inner Temple; George Brooke, Esq.,

student of the Middle Temple; Fitzroy Francis Booker Cowper, Esq., student of the Inner Temple; Kishori Mohan Chatterjea, Esq., William Croasdill, Esq., students of the Middle Temple; Fendall Currie, Esq., George William Melville Dale, Esq., Arthur Houssemayne Du Boulay, Esq., students of Lincoln's Inn; Edward Arthur Dunn, Esq., William Erskine, Esq., Clement William Govett, Esq., students of the Middle Temple; Thomas Colpitts Granger, Esq., James Winterbottom Hamilton, Esq., George Frederic Holroyd, Esq., Pearson Robert Irvine, Esq., George Jamieson, Esq., students of the Inner Temple; William Austen Leigh, Esq., student of Lincoln's Inn; William Alexander Lindsay, Esq., Robert Bovell Neblett, Esq., students of the Middle Temple; C. W. Pinkstan Overend, Esq., student of Lincoln's Inn; Sitarem Narayan Pandit, Esq., Arthur Daniel Pollen, Esq., students of the Middle Temple; William Edward Sanger, Esq., Lewis Charles Sayles, Esq., students of Lincoln's Inn; William Jamieson Soulsby, Esq., student of the Middle Temple; Charles Agnew Turner, Esq., student of the Inner Temple; Arthur Weekes, Esq., and Edward Albert Wurtzburg, Esq., students of Lincoln's Inn, certificates that they have satisfactorily passed a public examination.

At an examination of students of the Inns of Court in Hindu and Mahomedan law, and in the laws in force in British India, held at Lincoln's Inn Hall, on October 28 and 29, 1872, the Council of Legal Education have awarded to Thomas Joseph Greenfield, Esq., student of Gray's Inn; James Keith Grosjean, Esq., Ardesheer Byramjee Kapadia, Esq., Samuel Archibald Locke, Esq., students of the Middle Temple; Pokala Venkatakrishnama Naidu, Esq., student of Lincoln's Inn; Arthur Daniel Pollen, Esq., James Hermann de Ricci, Esq., students of the Middle Temple; Iyah Cumbumpati Sabapathi, Esq., George Serrell, Esq., students of Lincoln's Inn; Patrick Dunlop Shaw, Esq, student of the Middle Temple; Arthur Weekes, Esq., student of Lincoln's Inn; and William Young, Esq., student of the Middle Temple, certificates that they have satisfactorily passed an examination in the subjects above-mentioned.

CALLS TO THE BAR.

Lincoln's Inn:-George Serrell, jun. (holder of the Studentship, C.L.E., Michaelmas Term, 1872, Exhibitioner Constitutional Law and Legal History, and Senior Exhibitioner Equity and Real Property, 1872), M.A., London University; Charles Arthur Duncan, LL.B., Cambridge; Thomas Nash, M.A., Oxford; James Edward Lloyd, B.A., Cambridge; Thomas Palmer Abraham, LL.B., Cambridge; William Henry Lipscombe, jun., B.A., Oxford; Frederick Robert Frith Banbury; Edmund Henry Stuart Nugent, B.A., Cambridge; John Maitland Reed, M.A., Oxford; Walter Henry Blake, B.A., Cambridge; William Thomas Langford, B.A., Oxford; Stewart Dawson; Godlieb George Bennett van Someren, University of London; Krishnarao Gopal Deshmukh, B.A., Bombay University; John Winfield Bonser, B.A., Cambridge, Fellow of Christ's College, Tancred Law Student; Emerson Dawson, LL.B., Dublin; Joscelyn

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Augustus De Morgan, B.A., Cambridge; Allen Chandler, jun.; Hon. J. Hamilton Lawrence, B.A., Cambridge; Soorjbal Munphool Pandit, Calcutta University, and Oriel College, Oxford; Arthur à Beckett Terrell; Frederick Anthony Walroth, M.A., Oxford; and Henry Mortimer Durand.

Inner Temple.-Robert Montague Hume; Frederick George Carey (holder of an Exhibition awarded in last Trinity Term, of an Exhibition awarded July, 1870, and of two Exhibitions awarded July, 1871), University of London, LL.B.; Edward Denny Bairfield (holder of an Exhibition awarded in this present Michaelmas Term, and of a certificate of honour, first class, awarded in last Trinity Term); Francis Harvey Murphy, B.A., London; Vincent Hunter Barrington Kennett, M.A., LL.B., Cambridge; John Lancelot Stirling, B.A., LL.B., Cambridge; Francis Robert Steele Bowen-Graves, B.A., Cambridge; John Henry Locke, B.A., Cambridge; Philip Arthur Scratchley, B.A., Oxford; William James Brooks, M.A., Oxford; John Smalman-Smith, B.A., Cambridge; Rowland George Venables, B.A., Oxford; Jonathan Field, B.A., Cambridge; Kirkman Finlay; Frederick William Hollams, B.A., Oxford; Henry Martin Lindsell, B.A., Oxford; Charles William Leathley Jackson, B.A., Cambridge; William Bennett Rickman (holder of an Exhibition awarded July, 1870); Louis Addin Kershaw, B.A., Oxford; William Alexander Baillie Hamilton; Pearson Robert Irvine, Cambridge; John Leonard Matthews, B.A., Oxford; Jefferys Charles Allen, B.A., Cambridge; Theodore Ellis Williams, B.A., Cambridge; Alfred Edmund Bateman; the Hon. Hamilton John Agmondesham Cuffe, B.A., Cambridge; Francis William Raikes, B.A., Cambridge; Edward James Pollock; the Hon. Richard Cecil Grosvenor, Oxford; Vernon Russell Smith, B.A., Cambridge; Richard Henry Cole; William James Ingram, B.A., Cambridge; Francis Holdsworth Hunt, B.A., Cambridge; Frederick Gordon Templer, B.A., Cambridge; and Clement Buesnell.

Middle Temple.-Edward Henry Whinfield, B.A., Magdalen College, Oxford; Frederick Dunlop Shaw; Richard Duncan Radcliffe, M.A., Christ Church, Oxford; Arthur Daniel Pollen, B.A., Dublin; Robert William Andrews, B.A., Dublin; Frederick Jennings Armstrong; Joseph John Chapman, M.A., Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Joseph Hunt Dunn; Frederick Barker; Henry Winch; Alfred St. George Hammersley; Jean Alexis Jules Piguéguy; James Herman de Ricci; and Ardesheer Byramjee Kapadid.

Gray's Inn.-Gustave Adolphus Smith (certificate of honour, first class, Michaelmas Term, 1871).

APPOINTMENTS.

Sir Roundell Palmer, Q.C., M.P., has been appointed Lord Chancellor of England, under the title of Lord Selborne; Mr. Justice Hannen has been appointed Judge of the Divorce Court; Mr. T. D. Archibald, of the Home Circuit, Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench in his place; and Mr. S. C. Bowen, Junior Counsel to the

Treasury, in the place of the latter. Mr. Carrington Francis has been appointed Private Secretary to Lord Selborne; Mr. Thomas Fooks, Solicitor, has been appointed Clerk of the Peace for Dorset ; Mr. John Hassard, Solicitor, Notary Public for Ecclesiastical purposes in England and Wales; Mr. Robert Collinson, Solicitor, Coroner for the Borough of Scarborough; Mr. H. G. Goldingham, Solicitor, Sheriff of Worcester; Mr. G. A. Cayley, Registrar of Deeds for the North Riding of Yorkshire; Mr. G. C. Whiteley, B.A., Barrister-at-Law, Clerk to the Justices of the Newington Division.

IRELAND. The judges for the trial of election petitions during the next twelve months are: The Right Hon. Mr. Justice Fitzgerald, the Right Hon. Baron Deasy, and the Right Hon. Mr. Justice Morris. SCOTLAND. - Mr. T. H. Orphoot has been appointed Sheriff Substitute for Peeblesshire.

OBITUARY.

September.

26th. TAHOURDIN, Harry, Esq., Solicitor, aged 29.

October.

25th. STOCKEN, William, Esq., Solicitor, aged 54.
26th. TEED, Edward, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, aged 61.

November.

4th. NELSON, John, Esq., Solicitor, aged 77.

4th. LEE, Thomas Yate, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, aged 53. 11th. LEEMAN, Joseph, Esq., Solicitor, aged 72.

13th. BREAREY, John J., Esq., Solicitor, aged 35.

14th. RAYMOND, John, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, aged 55.

19th. BENNETT, Risdon D., Esq., Barrister-at-Law, aged 30.